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Author Archives: Michael
Cabrillo Festival 2008 – Riffs and Refrains
Cabrillo came up with another winner in last night’s concert, featuring works by Matthew Cmiel, Mark Anthony Turnage, John Corigliano, and John Adams. I was particularly taken with the Turnage and Adams works. Turnage’s concerto Riffs and Refrains featured spectacular … Continue reading
MusicXML Support in MaxScore and BrailleMUSE
MusicXML is drawing ever closer to support by 100 applications. I recently heard about two new applications that have added MusicXML support: MaxScore is a Max object that adds music notation to the Max/MSP system, including export to MusicXML files. … Continue reading
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Cabrillo Festival 2008 – Triple Play
Saturday’s Cabrillo concert was another winner. It opened with a beautiful piece by Dorothy Chang, moved on to an intriguing work by Mason Bates, and concluded with a spectacular percussion concerto by John Corigliano with Evelyn Glennie as soloist. I … Continue reading
Cabrillo Festival 2008 – First Night
August in Silicon Valley means that it’s time for the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music over the hill in Santa Cruz. This is an amazing two-week festival of contemporary orchestral music. Since 1992, the brilliant Marin Alsop has been the … Continue reading
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Beijing – July 2008 – Forbidden City
After our first concert with Jin Xing, we had more sightseeing time in Beijing. The highlight were Tian’An Men Square and the Forbidden City: This was the one day on the tour where we were outside a lot when it … Continue reading
Beijing – July 2008 – The Egg
Our first concert in Beijing on July 1 was in the Great Hall of the People. This is a huge space, so the combined orchestras and choruses were amplified. It was the opening concert of the pre-Olympics China International Youth … Continue reading
Beijing – July 2008 – The Great Wall
We had one more big sightseeing day before getting back into our rehearsal and concert schedule in Beijing. During the morning we visited the Temple of Heaven: In the afternoon, it was off to the Great Wall at JuYongguan. The … Continue reading
Beijing – June 2008 – The Summer Palace
I try to avoid redeye flights whenever possible, but I got a wonderful night’s sleep in the soft sleeper section of the night train from Shanghai to Beijing. We arrived at the Beijing railway station: We then went to a … Continue reading